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Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether anaesthesia: No 3

by: Wellcome Library

Publication date: 1944

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States

Topics: Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd Pharmaceuticals Division, Anesthesia, Anesthesia -- history, Anesthesia, Inhalation, Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history, Medical equipment, Respiratory systems, Medical treatment, Anesthesia, Anesthesia -- history, Anesthesia, Inhalation, Anesthesia, Inhalation -- history, Medicine.

Publisher: Direction by Margaret Thomson, Photography by A.E. Jeakins, Diagrams W.M. Larkins & Co. Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

Rights: ICI Wellcome Trust 2009

A highly technical film for the anaesthetist, showing the apparatus designed to deliver continuous flow of nitrous oxide and oxygen. Ether is shown being added to the mixture of gases in various quantities. Diagrams are used throughout with short sequences of anaesthetised patients in between. The film is structured in parts, as follows Preparation of Apparatus (showing correct flow meters), Induction, Introduction of Oxygen, then Ether, Maintenance. 6 segments.